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CISA KEV · ACTIVELY EXPLOITED
MEDIUM severity

CVE-2024-12686

MEDIUM

CVE-2024-12686 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.6) OS Command Injection vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-01-13) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

A vulnerability has been discovered in Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) which can allow an attacker with existing administrative privileges to inject commands…

Published
Updated
Affected
2 products
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 24, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

  • Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-01-13. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-02-03.
  • A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-12686.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
13.7%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Moderate Risk-0.09%
Lower risk than most CVEs96th percentile — riskier than 96% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
8.35%17.9%27.4%36.9%31.5%31.5%13.8%13.8%13.7%May 26Jul 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2024-12686 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 10–50% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) which can allow an attacker with existing administrative privileges to inject commands and run as a site user.

Affected Products

2 products · 2 configurations
Application
privileged remote accessbeyondtrust
≤ 24.3.1
range
Application
remote supportbeyondtrust
≤ 24.3.1
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vulnerability

  1. Detect

    Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).

  2. Remediation status

    No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2024-12686 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does.

Frequently Asked Questions

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CVE-2024-12686: Command Injection (Medium 6.6, KEV)